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Motives underlying the decision to forgive: Effects on outcomes for forgivers
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Root, Briana L.
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Year and Degree
2008, Master of Arts, Case Western Reserve University, Psychology.
Abstract
The present study investigated how motivations underlying the decision to forgive affected outcomes for forgivers. Using a web-based study, 185 undergraduates who had been hurt by someone close to them were randomly assigned to either a control condition or a condition focusing on one of the following motivations for forgiving: personal benefit, moral obligation, and goodwill. Compared to the control group, all three forgiveness conditions reported higher forgiveness levels, more pro-forgiveness attitudes, and less negative emotions toward the transgressor. The forgiveness conditions did not differ except for perceived autonomy in the decision to forgive, for which the personal benefit group ranked highest. Gender acted as a moderator on participants' response to forgiveness conditions. Females did not respond to the conditions differently, while males in the forgiveness conditions – the goodwill condition in particular – reported higher levels of forgiveness and lower negative emotions toward the transgressor as compared to the control group.
Committee
Julie Exline, PhD (Advisor)
Norah Feeny, PhD (Committee Member)
TJ McCallum, PhD (Committee Member)
Pages
70 p.
Subject Headings
Personal Relationships
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Psychology
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Social Psychology
Keywords
Forgiveness
;
Transgression
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Interpersonal Offenses
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Gender
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Motivation
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Root, B. L. (2008).
Motives underlying the decision to forgive: Effects on outcomes for forgivers
[Master's thesis, Case Western Reserve University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=case1213112780
APA Style (7th edition)
Root, Briana.
Motives underlying the decision to forgive: Effects on outcomes for forgivers.
2008. Case Western Reserve University, Master's thesis.
OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center
, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=case1213112780.
MLA Style (8th edition)
Root, Briana. "Motives underlying the decision to forgive: Effects on outcomes for forgivers." Master's thesis, Case Western Reserve University, 2008. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=case1213112780
Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)
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